Adding git-hub.com/dustin/go-humanize to get human-readable dates (“1 month ago”, “just now”, etc.)

go.mod

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ go 1.14
 
 require (
 	github.com/RackSec/srslog v0.0.0-20180709174129-a4725f04ec91
+	github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.0
 	github.com/gin-contrib/sessions v0.0.3
 	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.6.3
 	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.3.0 // indirect

go.sum

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ github.com/client9/misspell v0.3.4/go.mod h1:qj6jICC3Q7zFZvVWo7KLAzC3yx5G7kyvSDk
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
+github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.0 h1:VSnTsYCnlFHaM2/igO1h6X3HA71jcobQuxemgkq4zYo=
+github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.0/go.mod h1:HtrtbFcZ19U5GC7JDqmcUSB87Iq5E25KnS6fMYU6eOk=
 github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane v0.9.1-0.20191026205805-5f8ba28d4473/go.mod h1:YTl/9mNaCwkRvm6d1a2C3ymFceY/DCBVvsKhRF0iEA4=
 github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate v0.1.0/go.mod h1:iSmxcyjqTsJpI2R4NaDN7+kN2VEUnK/pcBlmesArF7c=
 github.com/gin-contrib/sessions v0.0.3 h1:PoBXki+44XdJdlgDqDrY5nDVe3Wk7wDV/UCOuLP6fBI=

offline-messages.go

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/gob"
 //	"fmt"
-	"log"
+	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
 	"github.com/gin-contrib/sessions"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+	"log"
 	"strconv"
 )
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ func GetTopOfflineMessages(c *gin.Context) {
 	if *config["dsn"] == "" {
 		log.Fatal("Please configure the DSN for accessing your OpenSimulator database; this application won't work without that")
 	}
-	db, err := sql.Open("mysql", *config["dsn"]) // presumes mysql for now
+	db, err := sql.Open("mysql", *config["dsn"] + "?parseTime=true") // this will allow parsing MySQL timestamps into Time vars; see https://stackoverflow.com/a/46613451/1035977
 	checkErrFatal(err)
 
 	defer db.Close()
@@ -63,21 +64,28 @@ func GetTopOfflineMessages(c *gin.Context) {
 			oneMessage OfflineIM
 			messages []OfflineIM
 			firstName, lastName, email string
+			messageTimeStamp sql.NullTime // sql.NullTime will match timestamps with NULLs without crashing; see https://stackoverflow.com/a/60293251/1035977
 		)
 
-		for i := 1; rows.Next(); i++ {
+		for /* i := 1; */ rows.Next() /* ; i++ */ {		// uncomment for special
 			err = rows.Scan(
 				&oneMessage.ID,
 				&oneMessage.PrincipalID,
 				&oneMessage.FromID,
 				&oneMessage.Message,
-				&oneMessage.TMStamp,
+				&messageTimeStamp,
 				&firstName,
 				&lastName,
 				&email,
 			)
 			oneMessage.Username = firstName + " " + lastName
 			oneMessage.Libravatar = getAvatar(email, oneMessage.Username, 60)
+			// do something to the time
+			if messageTimeStamp.Valid {
+				oneMessage.TMStamp = humanize.Time(messageTimeStamp.Time)
+			} else {
+				oneMessage.TMStamp = ""
+			}
 
 			// if *config["ginMode"] == "debug" {
 			// 	log.Printf("[DEBUG]: message # %d from user %q <%s> to %q is: %q\n", i, oneMessage.Username, email, username, oneMessage.Message)

templates/topbar.tpl

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 					</div>
 					<div class="font-weight-bold">
 						<div class="text-truncate">{{- .Message -}}</div>
-						<div class="small text-gray-500">{{- .Username -}} · {{- .TMStamp -}}</div>
+						<div class="small text-gray-500">{{- .Username -}}{{- if .TMStamp }}&nbsp;·&nbsp;{{ .TMStamp -}}{{- end -}}</div>
 					</div>
 				</a>
 				{{ else }}